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Earlier last week it was announced that the phone unlocking bill had been passed by the Senate. What does this mean for the average user? Well it basically means that you are allowed to unlock phones legally, where previously a law had made it so that unlocking your phone was considered an illegal a

Monitise has announced that it’s entering into an expanded, multi-year global alliance with IBM. The alliance is designed to deliver cloud-based solutions aimed at enabling mobile e-commerce for financial services institutions. Monitise’s share price is currently up 1.8%. The alliance will, the comp

Edward Snowden says he plans to develop and promote anti-surveillance technology to hamper government spying across the globe. The former US National Security Agency contractor, who leaked confidential documents detailing the extensive surveillance activities of the NSA and the UK’s GCHQ, call

A couple of years ago when the concept of 3D movies was starting to catch on, some companies, namely HTC and LG, decided that it would be a good idea to create 3D phones as well, meaning that users could look forward to 3D content and games without the need for 3D glasses, kind of […]

So you just bought a flashy pair of headphones, and you’re worried that your hoodie might prevent you from flaunting your new gear. Are you stuck? Not if you pick up Betabrand’s upcoming Audio Engineer jacket. Its hood is made of the same “acoustically transparent” fabric you

Earlier this year, a German company by the name of Quant took the wraps off a car powered by the company’s nanoFLOWCELL technology. If advancements in vehicular technology is of interest to you, you might be pleased to learn that the vehicle is expected to make its debut on the road as it has been [

When it comes to cleaning our clothes and taking care of them, we usually toss them in the washing machine, take them to the dry cleaners, and iron them in order to keep them wrinkle free. It’s definitely not a big deal and it probably doesn’t take you that long to do so. However it […]

A few years ago, games like Rock Band, Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, and so on were all the rage. Perhaps it was the novelty of playing such games in our living room where previously they could only be found in arcades, but admittedly that trend has somewhat died out. However it looks like Harmonix, the [&h

According to a report the other day, it was revealed that Starbucks had plans to expand the functionality of its mobile app by letting customers pre-order their drinks. However it seems that Starbucks’ plan for their mobile app is not stopping there, nor will it be limited to it being used at just S

Earlier this year a company called Gionee unveiled the Elife S5.5. The handset was dubbed the world’s thinnest smartphone that measured an impressive 5.5-inches thick. However it looks like that record could soon be shattered by none other than the company themselves, thanks to recent certification

So recently EA tried to justify why they would not be including some key features into The Sims 4 which made previous The Sims titles so endearing. Naturally players weren’t too thrilled by EA’s decision, and it looks like The Sims 4 could be getting another feature that may or may not sit too well

Your smartphone is the scourge of restaurants. Customers snapping photos of food and dawdling on Facebook at meals have slowed down table service by an hour over the last 10 years, as an anonymous poston Craigslist’s “rants & raves” section recently alleged. The writer claimed that his restauran

In the world of smartphones and tablets, battery life is king. For that reason alone, portable chargers are already a hot commodity. Among your portable charger options, ChargeAll, a company that provides charging stations for offices, restaurants and hotels, claims to stand out from the rest with w

Want to see a textbook definition of irony? Look no further than Indexeus, a search engine that primarily exposes the info of malicious hackers caught up in the very sort of data breaches that they inflict on others. As it was originally structured, people had to “donate” $1 for every re

Samsung have been in the electronics industry for quite some time now and over the years they have provided their customers with different devices especially when it comes to their phones. They recently introduced us to the new Samsung Z that was unveiled early June as the world’s first Tizen

You might be used to following news and updates from law enforcement agencies on Twitter and Facebook, but now West Midlands Police in the UK has made the usual move of launching a Snapchat presence. It says it’s the first force in the world to utilize the network, enabling locals to keep up with it

Remember earlier this year when Sony said that the Xperia Z2 would go on sale in the U.S. during the summer? Well it’s now summer and the Xperia Z2 is now available for purchase, just like Sony promised that it would be. The Xperia Z2 recently made its way onto the virtual shelves of Sony’s [&hellip

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a way to augment the puny flesh and bone accouterments on human hands. The researchers have actually developed a powered glove outfitted with two robotic fingers to prove a better grip to human hands. They have used sensors on the glo

Direct Message or DM is an integral part of the Twitter experience. If you are on Twitter chances are that you might have sent a DM once or twice and you may have also noticed that its not that easy to delete DMs. Twitter is available across a variety of platforms but if you delete […]

Destiny’s galaxy may be vast and currently well-populated with beta Guardians, but players aren’t able to team up with heroes hailing from different consoles. While technical issues might seem like a likely culprit, Bungie engineer Roger Wolfson told Digital Trends the lack of cross-plat

BlackBerry has got people talking with whatever information it has shared about its upcoming high-end smartphone called the BlackBerry Passport. So far the company has unveiled some of the major features that this device has, including but not limited to a touch enabled keyboard. A video has been po

Three MIT students have been showing off a modified 3D printer that can produce customized ice cream shapes, and if the process is refined successfully you could be having your desserts to order in the near future. Using a Solidoodle printer and a Cuisinart soft-serve ice cream machine the team was

Did you ever go on a big family road trip where there were two or more cars in the caravan, and you brought along walkie-talkies so you could communicate on the drive? Now, of course, nearly everyone has cell phones to accomplish the same thing more easily, but there’s a problem: When you don’t have

High-speed photography can be daunting if you’re not a seasoned pro. You may have a fast camera and flash, but you probably don’t have the gear you’d need to get that frozen-in-time look in most situations. MIOPS’ new camera trigger might make it easier to take high-speed sho

Sometimes, something that seems like a good idea just doesn’t catch on. Streaming video service Qplay is the latest such example: The company announced Saturday that it would close up shop on July 25. “It is with heavy hearts that we announce Qplay will be closing. Our last day of service is next Fr

Monument Valley, an Apple Design Award-winning game that twists player perspective like an MC Escher painting twists stairs, has surpassed more than one million sales. We’re not sure what that number means to a game that cares nothing for the laws of physics, but developer ustwo seems pleased

If you want a good idea of exactly what not to do in informing customers of a data breach involving your website, follow the lead set by Australian website Catch of the Day. Catch of the Day, an Australian retail website offering discounted prices and deals on a range of products, suffered a severe

A new scheme aimed at redeeming the UK’s illegal file-sharers from their law-breaking ways will see emails sent out to persistent offenders from next year. The government-brokered Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme, agreed between ISPs and organisations representing content creators, hopes to

Designed to hide the list of your most recently viewed movies and television shows, Netflix is currently testing a private viewing mode that keeps your content history completely private from anyone else that uses the main profile on your Netflix account. In addition to hiding recently viewed conten

A few days ago, it was reported that Amazon was planning on introducing an unlimited Kindle service. Basically it involves users subscribing to the Kindle Unlimited service at $9.99 a month and gain access to pretty much the entire Kindle library at Amazon. Sounds like a good deal, right? Well if yo

We know that many of you guys are looking forward to the BlackBerry Passport, and we have to admit that we are pretty curious about the handset ourselves. From what we know about it so far, the phone will pack a gesture-based keyboard and will use a 1:1 display aspect ratio, which is a pretty [&hell

So we know that you can pay for your drinks using the Starbucks app, but it seems that Starbucks plans on taking its app to the next level, going as far as allowing their customers to pre-order their drinks so that customers won’t have to stand in line and will be able to grab their […]

It seems that the trend of selfies is not going to be going away anytime soon, so if you’d like for a way to immortalize your selfie on a piece of toast, you will be able to do so thanks to the folks at the Vermont Novelty Toaster Corporation. Making art on toast is not […]

These days, it’s pretty common to see even nine-year-old kids toting better smartphones than many adults out there, and that’s likely the sentiment Amazon hopes to convey with its first Fire phone ad. Now that we’re a stone’s throw away from the device’s release date, t

HasOffers has been a tricky startup to write about, partly because ad attribution isn’t inherently sexy, but mostly because of the name. Yes, there’s HasOffers the company and HasOffers the product, but at this point it’s probably best known for a different service, MobileAppTracking, which allows m

Amazon and eBay veteran, Guru Hariharan, is ready to revolutionize the way retailers price and sell products. His company, Boomerang Commerce, announced today $8.5 million in its first round of institutional financing from Trinity Ventures and Madrona Venture Group. Boomerang Commerce’s newest conce

It wasn’t too long ago that LG officially announced their flagship handset, the LG G3. The device packed some impressive specs, such as a QHD display and a laser-guided autofocus system for its camera. However if the phone was a bit too pricey for your liking, you might be interested to learn that L

Soundwave, the app designed for sharing your music taste, is today receiving its biggest update since it launched 13 months ago. While Soundwave 1.0 was a good sketch of what Last.fm might be like if it had been developed a decade later, a year on the app has matured into something far more fully-fo

Facial recognition surveillance software being tested by British cops that allows “faster than ever” data searching and tracking of subjects is raising concerns among privacy activists. NeoFace software analyses dozens of facial features from digital CCTV images or police body cameras and matching t

Manzama, a startup with cloud-based software that helps law firms stay on top of key information about their clients, is expanding into consulting and financial services markets, thanks to some fresh money. The startup announced today a $1.3 million round of new funding. The money shows investors be